Passion fruit
Ripe yellow passion fruit, or "maracuyá"
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Malpighiales Family: Passifloraceae Genus: Passiflora Species: P. edulis
Binomial name
Passiflora edulis Sims

For the German pop group, see Passion Fruit (band).

Passiflora edulis or passion fruit is a plant cultivated commercially for its fruit. It is native to South America and widely grown in India, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Brazil, southern Florida, Hawaii, Australia, East Africa, Israel and South Africa. The passion fruit is round to oval, yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous seeds. The fruit can be grown to eat or for its juice, which is often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (890x760, 312 KB) Two ripe yellow passion fruits, one of them opened to show the edible seeds. ... Scientific classification redirects here. ... For other uses, see Plant (disambiguation). ... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. ... Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class of flowering plants. ... Families Family Achariaceae Family Balanopaceae Family Bonnetiaceae Family Caryocaraceae Family Chrysobalanaceae Family Clusiaceae Family Ctenolophonaceae Family Dichapetalaceae Family Elatinaceae Family Erythryloxaceae (coca family) Family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) Family Euphroniaceae Family Goupiaceae Family Humiriaceae Family Hypericaceae (St Johns wort family) Family Irvingiaceae Family Ixonanthaceae Family Lacistemaceae Family Linaceae (flax family... Passifloraceae Categories: Stub | Plant families | Malpighiales ... Species Passiflora amalocarpa Passiflora amethystina Passiflora aurantia Passiflora caerulea Passiflora capsularis Passiflora edulis Passiflora foetida Passiflora helleri Passiflora holosericea Passiflora incarnata Passiflora karwinskii Passiflora mucronata Passiflora murucuja Passiflora tenuifila Passiflora tulae Passiflora vitifolia Passiflora yucatanensis Passion flower refers to vines in the genus Passiflora—flowering plants known for their showy... Latin name redirects here. ... John Sims was a taxonomist who classified various species of plants. ... Album Cover for Passion Fruit’s album Spanglish Love Affairs (April 2000) Passion Fruit was a Eurodance/Bubblegum Dance group consisting of three girls of Dutch and German descent: Maria Serrano-Serrano Nathaly van het Ende Debby St. ... For other uses, see Fruit (disambiguation). ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... West Indies redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ...  Eastern Africa (UN subregion)  East African Community  Central African Federation (defunct)  Geographic East Africa, including the UN subregion and East African Community East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easternmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. ...

The two types of passion fruit have greatly different exterior appearances. The bright yellow variety of passion fruit, which is also known as the Golden Passionfruit, can grow up to the size of a grapefruit, has a smooth, glossy, light and airy rind, and has been used as a rootstock for the purple passion fruit in Australia.^[1] The dark purple passion fruit (for example, in Kenya) is smaller than a lemon, with a dry, wrinkled rind at maturity. Binomial name Macfad. ... Grafting is a method of plant propagation by which one woody plant is mechanically attached to another so that the two eventually fuse together. ... This article is about the fruit. ...

The purple varieties of the fruit reportedly have traces of cyanogenic glycosides in the skin, and hence are mildly poisonous.^{[citation needed]} However, the thick, hard skin is hardly edible, and if boiled (to make jam), the cyanide molecules are destroyed at high temperatures. A cyanide is any chemical compound that contains the group C≡N, with the carbon atom triple bonded to the nitrogen atom. ... A glycoside is a molecule where a sugar group is bonded through its anomeric carbon to a nonsugar group by either an oxygen or a nitrogen atom. ... Jam from berries Jam (also known as jelly or preserves) is a type of sweet spread or condiment made with fruits or sometimes vegetables, sugar, and sometimes pectin if the fruits natural pectin content is insufficient to produce a thick product. ... This article is about the chemical compound. ...

Uses

A glass of passion fruit juice

• In Australia, it is available commercially fresh and canned. In addition to being added to fruit salads, passion fruit is commonly used in desserts, such as the topping for the pavlova (a meringue cake), cheesecake, and vanilla slice. It is also used to flavour soft drinks such as Passiona and cordials.

• In the Dominican Republic is used to make juice, jams, the chinola flavoured syrup is used on shaved ice and it is also eaten raw sprinkled with sugar.

• In Puerto Rico, it is widely believed to lower blood pressure.

• In Brazil passion fruit mousse is a common dessert, and passion fruit seeds are routinely used to decorate the tops of certain cakes. Passion fruit juice is also very common.

• In Indonesia it is eaten straight as a fruit. Nevertheless, it is common to strain the passionfruit for its juice and cook it with sugar to make some sort of thick syrup. It is then mixed with water and ice to be drunk.

• In Hawaii it is normally eaten raw. Lilikoi flavoured syrup is a popular topping for shave ice. Ice cream and mochi are also flavoured with lilikoi, as well as many other desserts. Lilikoi fruits are not widely available in stores, so most of the fruit eaten comes from backyard gardens or wild groves.

• Passion fruit juice or syrup is an essential ingredient of some cocktails, particularly the hurricane.

• In South Africa passion fruit is used to flavor yogurt.

Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 538 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (729 × 813 pixels, file size: 218 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)A glass of passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) juice. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 538 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (729 × 813 pixels, file size: 218 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)A glass of passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) juice. ... A pavlova bought from a Foodtown in New Zealand. ... Lemon meringue muffins For the Dominican folk dance and the music it is performed to, see merengue. ... For Cheesecake in the sense of female glamour photograph, see Pin-up girl. ... A mille-feuille pastry A mille-feuille pastry that has combed glazing The Mille-feuille(s) (French thousand sheets), Napoleon (esp. ... Passiona is a passion fruit-flavoured soft drink available only in Australia and manufactured by Cadbury Schweppes. ... A bottle of squash Squash (sometimes called cordial; however, see the definitions below) is a highly-sweetened (and often fruit-based) concentrate, which is mixed with a liquid, most commonly water, before drinking. ... A sphygmomanometer, a device used for measuring arterial pressure. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... ... Missing image Ice cream is often served on a stick Boxes of ice cream are often found in stores in a display freezer. ... Rice Cake Pounding mochi in an usu Making mochi with a modern piece of equipment Mochi (Japanese ) is the Japanese variant of Chinese rice cake, which, like its Chinese origin, is made of glutinous rice, pounded into paste and molded into shape; however, unlike the Chinese variety, it is molded... For other uses, see Cocktail (disambiguation). ... A Hurricane is a drink made from passion fruit syrup and rum. ...

See also

• Giant granadilla
• Sweet granadilla
• Granadilla
• Grenadilla

Binomial name Passiflora quadrangularis Triana & Planch The Giant Granadilla or Badea (Spanish: ), Passiflora quadrangularis, is the largest of the passionfruits, plants of the genus Passiflora. ... Binomial name Passiflora ligularis A.Juss. ... A granadilla is any of several species of plants of the genus Passiflora, e. ... Grenadilla is a name given to a number of different African black woods, most commonly Dalbergia melanoxylon (sometimes known as Mpingo). ...

References

1. ^ Reynhardt, Debbie. "Gardening with Debbie Reynhardt", Dispatch Online, Dispatch Media (Pty) Ltd, 8 February 2003. Retrieved on 2006-11-20. 

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Passiflora edulis

• Fruits of Warm Climates: Passionfruit
• California Rare Fruit Growers: Passion Fruit Fruit Facts
• Passiflora Society International
• Australian Passionfruit Varieties
• Phytochemicals in Passion Fruit
• Passiflora Online
• How to Grow Passionfruit

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